A Phone That Can Read Your Lips Is Coming
Chat up friends and business contacts silently, but just do it when no one can see you.
A team from the Karlrushe Institute of Technology (KIT) are working on lip-reading software that will allow users to make phone calls silently.
Specifically, the system will let people make a call during a meeting, and simply mouth out their message. The software will detect the electrical impulses emitted by the muscles used when speaking, and translate this into spoken text on the recipient's phone.
According to the KIT team, this will allow people to make calls without excusing themselves from meetings, classes, and other situations where speaking out loud on the phone is a no-no.
Right now, the system requires users to stick unsightly electrodes on their face, but the development team is confident they can integrate the process completely into a phone. In any case, it's plain silly to mouth words with wires sticking out of your head!
There are plans to add translation functionality as well. Speak in French for instance, and your contact in Germany will still be able to understand you.
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Sticking electrodes to the face..!! Not so very fashionable i say.. The future plans look good though..
"There are plans to add translation
functionality as well. Speak in French for instance, and your contact in Germany will still be able to understand you."
This strikes me as the more useful feature that you'd think would be developed first. When last I looked, a silent phone call could be done via text message or email.
...or you could just send a text message.
Don't get me wrong, I hate sending texts when I don't have to, but sometimes they come in really handy.
My favorite is when a friend will text me "call me," needless to say I do not usually call them...
...or you could invent a device that can read brain wave perfectly... then there'd be no need to talk.
Maybe they can make one to recognize sign language and translate that into voice on the other end, and vice-versa. That'd be neat and more useful.
Sticking electrodes to the face..!! Not so very fashionable i say.. The future plans look good though..
Not fashionable until you stick an Apple logo on it!
hmm i wonder if they'll ever come up with a mind reading device that translates thoughts into phone voice or messages:
"hi! Food sex games? food! Sex games, food games.. ahhh, boobs...food! Also money cars technology. Sex. Food games, bye!.. oh oh one more thing.. ALCOHOL!"
No one is seeing the other aspect of this, mute people will be able to mouth words and have them spoken by a robo voice immediately!!! This is a HUGE breakthrough spanning many possibilities (!!!) and they did all so they could text in the middle of class...
I think the problem of phone during classes and meeting is not only the noise, but also paying attention and some sort of respect.
Great product anyway
Ace Ventura isn't going to have to throw his voice anymore.
Great, now HAL9000 is portable and all we're going to hear is "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that."
(2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke for the youngsters)
There are plans to add translation functionality as well. Speak in French for instance, and your contact in Germany will still be able to understand you.
Surrendering has never been so easy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DrRE1LDY_U
Ugh hope people who are used to mumbling won't have any trouble with this.
I agree with some of the others I think the translation would be the best part. And the sign language would be great if they would be able to get that to work. If they manage even just the translation i'd buy what ever phone it worked for.
No one is seeing the other aspect of this, mute people will be able to mouth words and have them spoken by a robo voice immediately!!! This is a HUGE breakthrough spanning many possibilities (!!!) and they did all so they could text in the middle of class...
Now that would be somethign really great!
can it translate to Klingon? lolz. serioulsy though, this can function like the universal translator..
Its amazing that 2 mentally disabled adults have the knowledge to create this technology. I'm sorry but they look like they have special needs.